Last week quarter grades were posted on your report card.
It is important to understand some things about our class when deciding what to do moving forward.
When you choose to take advantage of these opportunities, your semester grade will reflect your perseverance, latest understanding, and mastery without being "dragged down" by past performance scores. Said another way, there is no obstacle preventing you from achieving an "A" (or "B" or whatever grade you choose) by the end of the semester. Your choice is simply, "how willing am I to do what's necessary to get this grade?"
Moving forward, you will decide what action to take based on your quarter grade report. If you are unsure what those actions are, please allow me to make a few suggestions. You could:
- look on ActiveGrade to find the learning goals that are less than "3" level.
- identify what assessments scored you on those goals.
- review your mistakes and corrections from these assessments.
- practice each goal with more examples.
- set an appointment with me to re-assess.
- re-assess old learning goals and see your current grade go up.
I look forward to great learning as we march toward the end of Semester 1.
Make it a great day!
It is important to understand some things about our class when deciding what to do moving forward.
- First, the grade comes from skill level, not points. When looking on Active Grade, read the numbers as such.
- Second, each skill level score updates based on the latest assessment, not averages with the old score(s).
- Third, the semester grade comes from your cumulative scores for the whole semester. It is not the first quarter averaged with the second quarter. The permanent grade you get out of this class is the semester grade.
- One opportunity that you have is to re-assess your goals. This is the way to raise your grade. You can re-assess with an after-school appointment.
- Another opportunity is to learn from your mistakes. You can learn from your old assessments to get better for your future assessment.
- Yet another opportunity is to learn at your pace. You can re-assess learning goals from past units when you finally achieve mastery. This includes ALL goals from the beginning of the year.
When you choose to take advantage of these opportunities, your semester grade will reflect your perseverance, latest understanding, and mastery without being "dragged down" by past performance scores. Said another way, there is no obstacle preventing you from achieving an "A" (or "B" or whatever grade you choose) by the end of the semester. Your choice is simply, "how willing am I to do what's necessary to get this grade?"
Moving forward, you will decide what action to take based on your quarter grade report. If you are unsure what those actions are, please allow me to make a few suggestions. You could:
- look on ActiveGrade to find the learning goals that are less than "3" level.
- identify what assessments scored you on those goals.
- review your mistakes and corrections from these assessments.
- practice each goal with more examples.
- set an appointment with me to re-assess.
- re-assess old learning goals and see your current grade go up.
I look forward to great learning as we march toward the end of Semester 1.
Make it a great day!
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